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| Iran got N-tech from China, Russia and Pakistan |
| 2003-11-21 |
| The International Atomic Energy Agency has identified Russia, China and Pakistan as probable suppliers of some of the technology Iran used to enrich uranium in its suspect nuclear programmes. The diplomats declined to say how the agency established the probable origin of the equipment. Reacting to earlier reports linking it to Iran’s enrichment programme, Pakistan had denied all involvement. Moscow’s public nuclear link with Tehran is a still-to-be-finalised US $800 million deal to help build Iran’s first nuclear reactor. On Wednesday, Washington rejected a proposed European draft resolution that would urge Iran to continue cooperation with the agency but refrain from harshly condemning it for concealing parts of its nuclear programme, saying it was prepared to opt for no resolution rather than a toothless one. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #4 What have the French and Germans got against the Iranians? I demand that they sell nuclear technology to all rogue states on an equal basis. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-21 7:20:55 PM |
| #3 From what I read quite a while ago, the Bushehr reactor project is mostly cash to Russia in exchange for design, CM, and technicians. The USSR big line of credit days are over. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-11-21 4:18:42 PM |
| #2 So why did France and Germany sell stuff to Saddam? and why have the europeans been so protective of the Iranians? Russian policy on Iran is easily explicable in power poliitcs terms - no clash of civs stuff is needed. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-11-21 10:45:32 AM |
| #1 That Russia is a member of the triad, along with Pakistan and China, that provided technology to Iran is not surprising. Russia has always been more Oriental than European. |
| Posted by: Tancred 2003-11-21 9:38:29 AM |